I might have written about this in a previous thread - but after a
personal rate of inflation of 1-2lb/yr since mid 30s, I took stock of what I hated about WFH through the lockdowns - which really locked-in such damage - and did really two, really-simply things:
First - ASAP, work out of my place of work, everyday,, because that commute gives me 4+miles a day of walking , everyday, for free - a thing I'd taken for granted for a couple of decades - yet 18months of
not doing so, showed how I'd failed to keep up with such a simple habit
(- that all my recreational exercise - cycling, walks on canals/ hills/hiking hols etc, the bits I kept up 2019-2022, did not compensate for, because I hadn't expanded their ambit as much as I thought!)
Second - go functionally -wholly-vegetarian - because that (1) is
always the better thing to do for manifold reasons, obvs, and (2) made me throw away/ adapt some of those ' I'm tired / lazy' dining habits. And dispose of old recipes, and expand my repertoire in other ways I enjoy / always have-done. yes, this meant I have also, binned a lot of casual-carb intake.
NB - I do not, never have had, a sweet tooth - quite the opposite.
Outcomes:
- shed c 18Kg in 10-12 months; have held off c 15, >>18months since, without any effort or even, thinking.
- Grew a beard at same time because (1) at 50, I'd never tried such; (2) it hides how lean my face is become... (nb I carry weight like a Seal, an even layer all over)
- bought new pants twice over, because waistline this far in is settling back to where I was at about 30, and what I have barely hangs on to the waistline I no longer have .. that's a quiet joy, as a mesomorph that's never had a 'gut'.